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Kuala Lumpur police have arrested a Bangladeshi man less than a day after he allegedly slashed his housemate at a restaurant in Taman Cheras Baru. The attack stemmed from accumulated interpersonal tensions between the two residents.
Bangladesh's Home Minister has instructed legal representatives to challenge the conditional bail granted to fugitive former police chief Benazir Ahmed in the UAE, citing suspicions that he holds passports from multiple countries.
Bangladeshi authorities demolished three illegal shrimp processing camps in the Sundarbans using suspected poison, seizing contaminated product destined for local markets and raising alarm over ecosystem damage.
Bangladesh will elect a new president when parliament reconvenes in September, following President Mohammed Shahabuddin's resignation on health grounds. The BNP-led government is expected to secure the position.
A Bangladeshi man pleaded not guilty to possessing 11 passports at Kulim Magistrate's Court on July 22, highlighting recurring document fraud issues affecting migration control in Malaysia.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission is actively searching for two Bangladeshi nationals needed as prosecution witnesses in an ongoing corruption trial proceeding at Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court.